9/7-9/13/47

9/7 Sunday In the morning to Walton. After lunch we spent the evening at St. James. Lost in an informal doubles tournament. Then lost to Weckworth. Eugene played five or six chess games including two with Pop who came over. Lillian read "East River" by S. Asch. "Unrealistic".

9/8 Eugene returned to school today. His teacher M Gerhold. Class B-5 (3a) Room 305. His previous teacher Mrs. Dwyer asked for him to be monitor of her class today. He also read them a story. Sylvia couldn't get into kindergarden  and will probably have to wait a year when she will enter 1A. She asked Lillian today if I ever had a beard and how you get one. Jews on the Exodus 1947 who have been shuttling back and forth after failing to run the blockade to Palestine are being forcibly debarked at Hamburg. The Nat'l Student Assoc'n voted to affiliate to the Intern'l Union of Students.

9/9 Beat Mencher. Eugene is messenger in his class. Sylvia is playing with her little friend Norma G. Mine strikes in Britain spread even against the union leaders advice. A drive is on to deport alien union leaders. Affected so far are Santo and Obermeier.

9/10 Lost to Schinasi. Sylvia went down alone with Mrs. Gallins and Norma but started to cry after about an hour. Jews were clubbed off the Exodus 1947 in Hamburg to the horror of the whole world.

9/11 Took the kids to the park after school while Lillian went to visit Sadie and see the new Robert. Eugene played the young people some chess while Sylvia picked "coffee". In a traditionally Republican stronghold, a Republican won a congressional by-election over a Democrat backed by united labor and pledged to combat the Taft-Hartley Bill. Food prices are causing national unrest. The AFL Executive Council called for a "Big 4" conference to end the international impasse. We saw "Dead of Night" a British psychological film with Michael Redgrave and "Wide Open Faces" made in 1938 with Joe E. Brown - terrible. Jane Wyman, Lyda Roberti, Sidney Toler.

9/12 Beat Weckworth. Eugene woke us at 8:30 so he missed school this morning. Sylvia vomited after lunch and Eugene complained of a stomach ache. An overflow crowd at the "Garden" heard Wallace, Aubrey Williams, Kingdon, Walsh, Canada Lee, Hirschmann, Robeson & Lena Horne, blast the American path to war and reaction at home at a P.C.A. rally.

9/13 Sylvia dawdles with her dry cereal at breakfast interminably. The city will probe high prices. Columbia U. has been found guilty of discrimination in employment by SCAD. The A.F.L. Exec Council has voted non-compliance with the slave law's provisions to submit non-Communist affidavits to the N.L.R.B.